§ 10-1607. SELF-CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.

(a)

The city shall develop a self-certification program. A Property may be placed in the self-certification program if the Property is inspected at least once every twelve months (plus a thirty day grace period), and re-inspected upon change of tenancy, by a professional property management company licensed by the State of California, or the Owner can provide adequate documentation that such annual and routine inspections take place and the substance of such inspections. Such documentation shall be on forms provided by the city, or forms that the Director determines to be substantially equivalent to those forms.

(b)

Self-certification forms shall be signed under penalty of perjury. It shall be unlawful to knowingly falsify any material information on a self-certification form, and any such falsification may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor.

(c)

10% of Residential Rental Properties in the self-certification program, and a sampling of the units thereon, will be inspected by the city on a random basis each year. A Property that is selected for random inspection and passes will be exempt from further random inspections for five years. A Property in which any unit contains violations posing imminent danger of death or serious injury to occupants shall immediately be removed from the self-certification program.

(Added Ord. 2017-5, § 1, eff. 3-13-17).